UPDATED: ERAS Announces Indefinite Waiving of Adoption Fees

UPDATE: On Monday, Crystal Reno, the supervisor of East Ridge Animal Services Department, said the facility is still full of dogs waiting for adoption. As a result, any adoption fees will continue to be waived until the census in the facility is down.

“There are some great dogs here that are waiting for their ‘furever’ home,” Reno said in an e-mail to East Ridge News Online. “If you are unable to adopt share our post.”

East Ridge Animal Services are encouraging the adoption of its surrendered dogs by waiving adoption fees indefinitely, officials said in a news release on Memorial Day.

“The shelter is full of amazing pups awaiting their ‘furever’ home,” said Crystal Reno, the Supervisor of East Ridge Animal Services. “Get down to the shelter this week and meet everyone.”

Officials said all dogs have been spayed/neutered, are up to date on all vaccinations and heartworm tested. Where heartworms have been diagnosed, the animals are on a preventative medication. In addition, all dogs that are adopted come with their own collar and leash.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.